The Issue: Whether the State Department should have fired four officials after security failures in Benghazi.

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No one should be surprised about the lack of accountability for the Benghazi debacle (“State’s Benghazi Baloney,” Editorial, Dec. 27).

No one gets fired, just transferred. The same thing happened in the wake of the “Fast and Furious” investigation.

They blame underlings, remove them from their positions and spin it as though they have disciplined them. But those responsible keep their hefty paychecks and taxpayer-funded pensions — as long as they don’t say anything about what really happened.

Bill Yurus

Ossining

The savages who assassinated our four brothers in Benghazi are free.

The four bozos from the State Department who were responsible for keeping our boys safe were forced to move to different desks.

UN Ambassador Susan Rice declines to be considered for secretary of state, and so avoids going under oath at a Senate confirmation hearing.

Hillary Clinton has still not addressed the subject and needs to have her picture slapped on a milk carton, while President Obama flies off to Hawaii, as we hurtle towards the fiscal cliff.

Meanwhile, the American citizen who made the video that had nothing to do with the Libyan attack wallows away in jail.

Jack McNicholas

Whitestone

Clinton’s State Department is an empty vessel.

The recent report from the State Department investigation of the attack on our consulate, which needlessly cost the lives of our ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, confirms that Clinton has been commanding an empty bureaucratic vessel of “systemic failures” with impunity, replete with denials and unaccountability.

Clinton’s lackluster tour of duty at State — aimlessly traveling the world, serving the Obama administration’s lack of leadership and do-nothing philosophy in foreign policy — has allowed the Middle East to explode.

There has been an Islamic-extremist takeover of Egypt, an unfettered expansion of al Qaeda, massacres in Syria, the growth of Taliban power in Pakistan and the advance of Iranian nuclear ambitions.

What a travesty that four months after four Americans were murdered due to the complete incompetence of the Obama regime, nobody has been held accountable, except some poor bozo who made a movie.

Since the “lame-stream media” won’t do anything and are actually complicit in this travesty, I suggest wanted fliers be posted all over the country with Obama and Clinton’s mug shots.

They are directly responsible for the deaths of four Americans, and their continued silence on the matter is deafening.

Walter Murray

Clearwater, Fla.

In this administration, what does it mean when someone resigns or is fired? Absolutely nothing, it seems.

People died, blame was thrust upon State Department employees, and what happens? Said employees get paid “administrative leave.”

Between the lying from Obama, Clinton and Rice, and the make-believe firing of four employees, Benghazi is shaping up to be the biggest scandal in the history of the United States, with no one being penalized. Shameful but true.

Charlie Honadel

Staten Island

It’s the lie that keeps on giving.

That four officials at the State Department we were told were dismissed was just another big lie by the administration.

They are waiting in the wings while still collecting their paychecks and will soon be back at their desks. So, at the end of the day, the Benghazi tragedy has been nothing but a continuing string of coverups and lies.